On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Quizzes

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Quiz

1 "Much have I travell'd in the realms of ________"
gold

silver

treasure

royalty
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
translations

novels

poems

plays
3 "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" is what kind of poem?
a quatrain

a sonnet

a series of heroic couplets

a sestina
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:"

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Elizabethean

Victorian

Gothic

Romanticism
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
love

death

war

poetry
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
four quatrains and a couplet

fourteen blank verse lines

an octave and a sestet

seven couplets
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
in fear of

to be loyal to

in the service of

to be in debt to
9 Cortez is ______
a poet

an explorer

a king

an astronomer
10 In line 10, the meaning of "ken" is closest to
sight

knowledge

lens

orbit
11 Homer's epics were originally composed in what language?
Greek

Latin

Italian

English
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?
vision

love

discovery

imagination
13 Which of Keats' friends introduced him to Chapman's translations?
Fanny Brawne

Joseph Severn

Percy Shelley

Charles Clowden Clarke
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"
bold

proud

softly

meek
15 Keats had probably read which poet's translation of Homer before encountering Chapman?
Alexander Pope

Ben Jonson

Percy Shelley

Samuel Johnson
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"
the West Indies

Canada

New England

Central America
17 In addition to Homer, Keats was most influenced by which poet in his own attempts at epic poetry?
William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ben Jonson

John Milton
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______
a doctor

a debt collector

a teacher

a ship captain
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?
the volta

the rhyme scheme

the poem's length

iambic pentameter
20 Which word would NOT be used to describe the poem's speaker?
complacent

ambitious

awestruck

imaginative
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
swimming

watching

seeing

hearing
22 Which of Keats well-known poems was the young poet's unfinished epic?
Hyperion

To Autumn

Eve of St. Agnes

Endymion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
the sublime

his literary friends

Greek myth

English history
24 The poem ends with _____
defeat

war

silence

celebration
25 Where are Cortez's men at the end of the poem?
at sea

in a village

in the city

a mountain's peak

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